Global Outreach
Get Involved
- Tell us what you’re up to – already actively participating in a global outreach project that you think other Restoration folks may want to join? Great! Tell us about it by filling out this form.
- Prayer gatherings for both local and global outreach - this will be a time to both intercede on behalf of this community as well as trade ideas, insights, questions, and dreams as we establish our next, concrete steps.
- No prayer meeting in August
- Saturday, September 18 – 9:00am-10:00am at Restoration Note it switches to the 3rd Saturday!
- World Orphans Moldova: We are funding a transitional home for girls who either have been trafficked or are at risk from trafficking. We are sending a team to Moldova this Fall to serve alongside the girls in the transition home with the anti-trafficking campaign, visit locals, and spend time in the transition home. The team is set, but you can help support them by being in prayer for their trip. Contact Liz with any questions or for more information.
- Planning your summer vacation? Why not incorporate a service element wherever you decide to go? Make it a “Holiday with a purpose” – ask Liz for ideas if you need suggestions!
- Want some summer reading suggestions? See below….
Mary Ann’s picks:
- Let the Nations Be Glad by John Piper ( One of the best ever written on the topic. ’Missions exists because worship does not.’)
- Eternal Word and Changing Worlds by Harvie Conn (Excellent academic discussion of theology, mission and anthropology and their interactions. Exposes our western assumptions about missions.)
- Bruchko by Bruce Olsen (Incredible story of how God led a young man to go to a remote isolated tribe in South America.)
- Anything by Paul Heibert (Christian anthropologist) e.g. Anthropological Reflections on Missiological Issues
Liz Gray’s picks:
- The Urban Halo by Craig Greenfield (Living in the slums alongside the poor in order to enable/empower communities to care for their own orphans)
- Beyond Culture by Edward T Hall (not Christian but THE best book on culture differences)
- Crossing Cultures by Patty Lane (another great book on culture – this one from a Christian perspective)
- Walking with the Poor by Bryant L. Myers (Principles and practices of transformational development)
OTHER IDEAS? Contact Liz with your book suggestions.
- Global outreach:
At Restoration we have an extraordinary membership – people are employed in many ways with varied, and amazing opportunities to work being Christ’s envoys in extraordinary places. At Restoration we want to support and pray for all our members as they engage with people around the world through their work sometimes explicitly, sometimes implicitly. We all want to be people who live in the Kingdom of God whilst waiting for the final fullness of the Kingdom.
However, there are occasionally specific opportunities to get alongside people in different places for short, focused projects with a small team from the church. These can be wonderful experiences for us – and we hope for our hosts as well! In the future we hope to be highlighting opportunities for members to serve on such teams.
Other short term mission opportunities? Watch this space! Or email Liz Gray.
Global Outreach Foci
As a new church we desire from the outset to exist not merely for our own spiritual enrichment but for the sake of revealing Christ to the community and world around us.
Our global outreach vision is coming into focus and as such we are seeking the Lord’s direction as to how Restoration will extend God’s kingdom to the least of these. While we are of a particular culture and of particular resources and talents, we humbly and prayerfully hope to have an impact that is beyond our limited abilities and plans; an impact that is clearly the work of God such that He receives glory.
Restoration, like its name would suggest, desires to seek out the broken people and places of the world. As such we sense a leading to partnering with groups helping with after-care initiatives for marginalized communities caught up in a variety of exploitative situations.
Because we believe that an indigenous, Christ-centered church is crucial for the long-term nurture and growth of believers in these communities, we hope to partner with local churches when sending short-term teams or supporting projects. As the church, we are unique in that we are not a development agency or a political movement but weak, broken sinners in need of grace who are commanded by God to go and incarnate the gospel with love and truth.
